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I'hiliJtlpliia, Tuciila., Krbt'jjry 10, li:o END THIS FOOLISHNESS T1HE squabble over the number of - clerks to be appointed by the City Council is interrupting important busi ness and ought to be ended without fur ther delay. The issue involved is petty, but the disposition of tho majority members to magnify it is tending to destroy confi dence in the efficiency of reformers. It is a waste of breath for the council men to blame tho Mayor for what is hap pening. They control their own actions, and if they hope to retain the respect of tho city they must demonstrate their ability to agree and to go ahead with their work. When they spend their time piffling over petty economy in clerk hire they nrc in danger of creating tho impression that they have seven-by-ninc minds, too little to compiehcnd the bigger question with which they must deal in the future. The postponement of action by tho finance committee yesterday afternoon simply delays the matter still further. SHOVELING BEGINS AT HOME TT IS easy to damn" the street-cleaning contractors or the Highway Bureau when the streets are blocked with snow. But part of the responsibility for the conditions rests upon the householders themselves, who do most of the damning. They are required to keep the gutters in front of their property clear of ice and snow; but few of them do it. The police have been instructed to call attention to the ordinance and warn the householders of the penalties that are provided for neglect. They might also call attention to the ordinance requiring each householder to shovel the snow from the sidewalk, an ordinance observed tardily in most cases and not at all in too many instance. The neglect is especially glaring in the case of unoccupied residences. The owners make no arrangements for keep ing the walks clean and pedestrians had to wade through drifts above shoe tops last week long after the snow stopped falling. RISE OF THE OFFICE GIRL TT IS not uncommon to find in the sketch of the life of a successful busi ness man the statement that he bean as an office boy and rose to a partnership. The death of Miss K. M. Haun, treas urer of the E. F. Houghton Co., reminds one that it is not boys alone who can achieve commercial success. Miss Haun began to work for the company at the age of sixteen. She displaced such abilities that in the course of time she became assistant treasurer. When tho treasurer died in 1910 she was elected to succeed him at a salary of $10,000" a year. She invested her savings in the shares of the company and was a large stockholder when she died at the age of forty-four. If she were the only successful busi ness woman in ihn rUr if u'nnl,! 1, . d-possible to draw any conclusions from her career about the business ability of Jier sex, but there are scores of women occupying responsible positions and owning shares in business concerns here, and holding their own in competition with men. The time is coming when we shall have a woman Carnegie or Rockefeller, as well rts women mayors and governors. NEW YORK'S TRAFFIC TIE-UP TN THIS instance Philadelphia enjoys the virtues of its defects. Reports from New York describe the complete suspension of the surface-car service be cause of tho ice and snow, which have closed the slots characteristic of the un derground trolley-wire system. Severe Winter storms piny havoc with such equipment, otherwise so admirable and respectful of metropolitan charms. Nine-tenths of the year, of course, the Manhattan transit arrangement, entail ing no disfigurement by poles and wires, is far preferable to ours. But the tie-up of our great neighbor has been so com plete and the ice blockade so tight that the temptation to make comparisons in crisis is hard to resist. The privilege of smiling self-com-placently at one's blunders is one iw accorded. Philadelphians who wish to indulge themselves have a flitting oppor tunity. FESS'S OPTIMISTIC FORECAST -1IUIRMAN FESS, of the Republican - congressional campaign committee, announces that his party will gain forty Boven scats in the House at the next elec tion, which will give u majority of ninety, nnd that it will elect enough senators to increase tho Republican majority from two to sixteen. Tills is counting the chickens before they arc hatched. But this ancient and ' respectable proverb was made long be fore experts qualified to foretell the pro portion of fertile eggs that was likely to prpduce chickens. Tho modern poultry yler knows approximately how many chickens he will hatch and how many he jkIU Bucceed in bringing to maturity. ' " Ihe smrfeiml ff expert knowledge Is now applied to political prognostication. Unless something unforeseen happens in tho intervening months the estimate of Congressman Fess is likely to be justified by the outcome in November. For example, he unticiputcs the elec tion of four more Kcpublicans from this stale, three more each from New York and New Jersey and two more from Ohio. The present temper of the voters warrants tho opinion which he expresses. POLICEMAN HOOVER'S CHASE AFTER SLACKING STATESMEN Party Leaders Cannot Ignore His Implied Demand for Frankness and Sin cerity in National Affairs TF MR. HOOVER cannot be got quickly out of the country, if starving mil lions needing insjant succor cannot be found 'mid Greenland's icy mountains or on India's coral strand or in any other far, far place, some one will have to rustle up a Socicly for the Prevention of Cruelty to Great Politicians. Hoover is pressing them hard. He is giving them no peace. Anguish is upon party leaders who find that they arc be ing slowly and ceitainly whipped out into the light of day by this newcomer in politics. And Hoover's letter of yester day, which was merely a demand that they state explicitly their beliefs and policies in relation to national affairs, will be viewed as a culminating act of frightfulness.' To. ask a routine political leader to have definite opinions is bad enough. To ask him to publish them bpforc they are trimmed, denatured, diluted, rouged and powdered in campaign party caucuses is to show yourself utterly devoid of any thing like human compassion. These things Hoover has been doing. And the tragic part of it is that Poland, Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Ar menia and points south are getting all the food that is available and more, in deed, than some of them deserve. All is quiet at Guam, Tahiti and tho Farallones Islands. The Malay Peninsula eats three times daily. Mr. Hoover has nqthing to do but stick around home and we have an im pression of him now standing like a po liceman at the door of the political sanc tuary in Washington swinging his club and itching for heavy work to engage his terrible energies. This is not pleasant for the successful men in the political trade. Hoover is a mighty portent. Men who have been making a good living peddling platitudes naturally are not happy when some one with a voice of authority asks them to open their luggage and submit, for gen eral scrutiny, the verbal tinsel that always has brought big prices as a truth substitute in tho everyday market. They are likely to feel as a commercial spir itualist might feel who was asked to per form out of doors in the bright light of a sunny noon. It was an easy life that Hoover inter rupted when he called for a showdown by party leaders. A man can achieve emi nence by making a nine-hour speech in the Senate against the League of Na tions. He can achieve eminence by making a nine-hour speech in the Senate in favor of the League of Nations. No body will know what he is talking about, lie himself may not even know. It seems never to occur to these highly aloof representatives of ours that if we arc able to establish amity and friendly relationships among the nations of the earth it ought to be a simple task to es tablish amity and friendly relationships among our own people at home. This is clearly what men like Hoover believe. For we are living and talking and think ing as if the United States were a hud dle of small and belligerent nations rather than a country destined to have a common aim and a common purpose. Mr. Goinpeis, for example, declaims in the manner of a duke of a warlike duchy with enemies on his borders. Judge Gary and his disciples behave in the manner of proud feudal kings embattled in a citadel. Capital is almost as sus picious of labor as Italy is of the Slavs. Labor is acquiring the delusions of em pire. Farmers as a class stand afar off and eye the rest of us as if we were peo ple of a separate nationality. And everybody is ready to trespass on every body else's frontiers. Business, labor, Democrats, Republi cans, farmers, the "wets" and the "drys" and the Socialists and the Palmers are all clamoring for class legislation. Neither group seems able to realize that all groups arc interdependent and that none can be quite happy or prosperous or at peace until all the rest are similarly well off. Into this bedlam steps Mr. Hoover with an implied demand for an account ing from the politicians whose defective leadership has made the general confu sion not only possible, but inevitable. The Hoover letter was a statement of principles only in form. It was in reality a challenge. It asked the men in high office to justify the pay they draw and the room that they take up in Washing ton. It is an embarrassment in party councils. The old cry "Who's Hoover?" is being raised again". But leaders in American politics might as well ask "Who's labor?" or "Who's capital?" "Who's the farmer?" or "'Who's business?" since all sections of the population are weary of words and are thinking in terms very much like the terms in which Hoover ex presses himself and his aims. Very definite questions are flung out to the party leaders by this man whom they are calling an amateur. The definite ness of Hoover and the consequent need for definiteness on the side of those who may oppose him v. ill be welcomed by the whole country. If the party ieaders do not want a League of Nations what alternative have they to offer in its stead? If the giddy Mr. Palmer is to throw overboard the essential principles of our governmental theory what has he to offer that is as good as free speech and a free press? Is the welfare of a party more impor tant than the welfare of the country How shall we meet the intellectual rest lessness that is responsible for socialistic agitations? How satisfy it? Is any one taking the trouble to find out actually what is in labor's mind and what is in the mind of capital? These arc some of tho questions that will hove to be wavered from party EVENING PUBLIC' LEDGER ncadquarteis bcroro Hoover can bo dis posed of. Hoover sets an example of frankness. Ho is for the League of Nations because, apparently, ho knows of no cndurablo alternative for it. Ho is against war be cause ho has seen tho results of war. He is against socialism and socialized trends in national affairs and his opposition may be explained by his discovery of the American farmer. Hoover sees and reads the farmer in a new light. In the farmer ho perceives the individualist whose free initiative is essential to the life of this or any other country. If tho initiative of the farmer is lessened the ambition of the farmer declines and the food supply declines with it, and prices climb. It is altogether logical to read tho meaning of the farmer into tho affairs of the country. If men are denied the right of free initiative they cannot have ambi tion. And it is only necessary to ask how America will survive without the ambition that made us a nation of pio neers. Hoover knows that there can be no substitute for free speech, lie knows that Mr. Palmer's injunction didn't settle the greatest economic crisis in our his tory and that that crisis has only been postponed to gather force. He knows that politicians still believe that you can cure an evil by ignoring it. And ho knows that the two big political parties have been developing some of the characteris tics of independent nations separated from the people of the United States. He implies all this and more. It is not necessary to accept Hoover as a presidential candidate to admit that, as ft political policeman, he is beyond praise. CLOSING IN FOR THE TREATY rpiIE assumption has been prevalent - that the treaty wranglers were poles apart 'in their views. Candidly surveyed, however, the situation is reduced to a debate concerning the Democratic and Republican conceptions of good manners. In his letter to Senator Hitchcock the President acceded to such an interpreta tion of the mooted Article X of the cove nant as specifying the prior powers of Congress legarding any action to be un dertaken "to respect and preserve against external aggression the terri torial integrity and existing political in dependence of all members of the league." What chiefly seems to trouble him is the form of the reservation, which he regards as "very unfortunate." Is this, then, all that is left of the political chasm in which the treaty has been sunk for seven months? The President agrees to the statement of the self-evident fact that the rights of Con gress cannot be impugned by any ar rangement with foreign powers. He would Tike to see that truth proclaimed gently. Mr. Lodge inclines to the vigor ous method. But the meaning of" the reservation which Mr. Hitchcock recently proposed and tho meaning of the one upon which Mr. Lodge insists are precisely the same. Political jealousies, narrow partisanship have magnified these mere divergencies of style prodigiously and absurdly. Peace is denied a great nation because neither faction is willing to face what it preposterously calls a "backdown." Happily the opportunity for the res toration of common sense is at hand. According to anticipated procedure, the treaty was revived in the Senate yester day and referred once more to the foreign relations committee, which is to report it today with the Lodge reservations. Modification of the ill-tempered pre amble seems inevitable. Article X is the only feature of the covenant now capa ble of provoking further deadlock and disputes thereupon cannot be.aught than frays over the color of the phraseology. Democrats and Republicans alike should be ashamed to defy the public any longer with hair-splitting verbal battles on that score. Plainly, if unintentionally, the Presi dent has exposed tho weakness of Mr. Hitchcock's position should the obduracy of this senator lead him to maintain a blockade because of sentences not couched according to the previous liking of the Democracy. Mr. Wilson has shown that a trifle, largely of his own making, now bars the road to peace. Only nine senators voted yesterday against the Lodge motion for reconsider ing the treaty. Here is at last an en couraging index of the sentiment of the Senate. Here also is a marked list of irreconcilables of whose ignoble, small and selfish perversity the public now has explicit proof. Two in the self-branding group voted against the war with Ger many. IT DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK FRIENDS of Governor Calvin Coolidgc, of Massachusetts, are calling atten tion to the coincidence that Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Woodrow Wilson each dropped his first name and was elected to the presidency. The pertinency of this lies in the fact that the governor was named John Calvin Coolidge by his parents and that when the boy reached the years of discretion he dropped the John. They forget, however, that the curtail ment of a nainp does .not , necessarily carry a man to toe White House, .it it did, then Champ Clark, who in his early youth was known as Beauchamp, would not be cursing fate whenever he thinks of what happened in the Baltimore con vention in 1912. In declaring that the Alms, and Interests farmers of the country would not join the Amer ican Federation of Labor in its nonpartisan campaicn T. O. Atkeson, representative of the National Orange, said that the interests of farmers nnd of organized labor were not identical. If for "interests" one reads "aims" his assertion may be accepted. Tbc inter ests of both demand a speeding up of pro duction, a fact wbkb many labor unions fail to recognize. One cannot hope to Little Drops in Prices convince the eonsum Llttlo Grains of Sense or thnt the drop in prices dtli' to follow thp drop in foreign exchangn can by any rliunce be considered a drop too much i but, unfortunately, it has more than oue angle. Philanthropy apart, When the family next door is starving one needs to keep a wary eye on the truck garden and the chicken coop. Three torpedoboat destroyers left Phila delphia on Sunday for a trip around the orld, and many thousands of individuals tied to desks cmied the youngtem who are taking the trip. " - HlIiADELPHlA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY "10, TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA Walking West on Chestnut Street While Snow Is Being Cleared Ily ItOY IIULTON mill snow lay dead white on the pine-J- rficnts, but out among the whccllrncUs, under tho dusting of a brief, lato flurry, it had taken ou the delicious hue of iced gluger bread. As I passed north by the spire of St. James's. I looked up nnd saw a faint new fallen nimbus on the heads of Christ and the Fishermen, and a generous mantle of white on the sculptured waves of Galilee. But down ou the sidewalk the going was rough. One needed to keep his eyes firmly on the foot way as he tramped north and turned into Chestnut street. Ou the approach of the old arched bridge a gang of men was trnvallling with the snow. "We're trying to fill up the river," smiled the policeman who seemed to have charge of the operation, "but we can't seem to make much headway." As he spoke one of the carls slewed back ward, dumping its white burden over the bridge rail, nnd there was a momentary heavy splash down below amoDg the gray sheets of broken ice. Then a few large lumps came bobbing up and drifted sullenly down stream toward the police boat at its mooring by the old wntchtower. The wagon righted itself and the men fell to work with their shovels. "C1VMN under its kindly cover of white, the --J east bank of the river is ragged and dis reputable, Lut the west shore, at Chestnut street, is built up into a ueat.irailed embank ment that suggests the possibilities of green lawns somo time with n pleasant space to walk in, and brings one poignant regrets thnt at least some little length of this river, once fo comely, has not been spared, here in the heart of the town between the three bridges, for a park along the water. At tho west cud of the bridge at the bot tom of its hill is commonly a great confusion of wagons and trucks, oue or two always showing under Jhcir jellow pawllngs those piles ,o, transparent bags filled with onions, like great heaps of huge brown pearls. The hnow here is no longer tbc color of gingerbread, but black blacker than choc olate cake-jwith the incessant grind of wheels nnd there is much hearty dispensing of wild epithet, as the trucks and carls and trolley cars engage nnd wrangle under the eyes of the quizzicnl hill horses who gaze out through the fence iof the coaljard. Here nt the corner I passed u gang of laborers on their way to the freight itrds brawny, laughing negroes with fept encased in poudot-ous wruppinga of burlap. Picking her way among them. there pnst-ed inc a daiuty ouug lady, footing carefully across the drifts in low shoes and sheer bilk stockings. OITOSITK the white tumbled yards of Marble Terraro is un old antique shop beside- whose doorway a maimed triton rides on a decapitated seahorse. For many years this old figure has gazed up into the weather, ar.d the pelting of the winter rains has at length brought a pathetic, futile nobility to the gesture of tho sea gods lifted face. I thundered vainly nt the shop door to find out nbout him. No oue answered ; so I gazed in. All about the shopwalls wa3 hung n col lection of ancient pictures in heavy old bat tered frames, and beyond them n few shelf rows of books piled uud jostled together. But the room was not without its touches of light ness : the ceiling bore a dazzling modern fresco, the door to the inner room was crowned with a canopy of scarlet and gold, and behind some loose boarding peered forth the purple edge of. a freshly painted snow scene. There wns no one in sight to explain nil these mysteries, and I turned reluctantly from my peep-hole at the door. AT WOODLAND AVLNUE, Chestnut street frankly abandons itFclf to a debauch of gasoline: there is no end to the hooting of horns nud the grinding of gears. Ko fur in deed has this passion consumed the staid soul of the street that one sees, not far from the corner, a movie palace turned into a modern garage. Where the flaming posters of Mary and Charlie once flanked the arabesque door ways, now stand two not less glowing invi tations to come in and stock up on gaH and oil. "Oh monstrous nnd obtuse people!" cried I, n tear freezing on my wind-whipped cheek, "who abandon the whirring of the four reels for the rattling of the four cylin ders, and hold the pleasure of dozing in the dark at Mazie's elbow of less account than fingering the cold knob of a gear bhift outside in the slush of the street." But these melancholy maundcrings were rudely broken in upon by the plop of a large soft snowball, and I looked down at the sum mons, into the faces of a sly little girl and a ros,y-cheekcd brother who were out with shovel nnd broom. "Do you want to buy some snow, mister?" Upon my intimation that the investment was a poor one, the little girl piped up, "But our snow Is free" a fact which she proceed ed to demonstrate rather emphatically by hurrahing a large white gift nt my head. The challenge was not to be evaded and when I went on a few minutes later there were little icy rivulets careering down my neck and I felt a pleasant glow on my cheeks. BEYOND the Jloorcsque vista and patient lions of Hamilton Court the prosperity of West Chestnut street rises to its crescendo in a group of brond mansions with black Tudor beams, or tall granite bays and bas tions massive enough for fortresses. Beyond them here nnd there may be seen a few old fashioned yellow houses with all the quiet half-rural charm about them that belonged to their palmy days, when this part of the street was still a suburban toad and the great folk had need of swift coaches to get into town. In one of thein in particular, where n tall tree has grown up close beside the wall, one feels something of tho old coun try atmosphere in that pleasant, unrcsented neighboring with the things of the ground. AT FORTIETH STREET I stepped north into Ludlow, where one sees in the win dows of the little houses the revealing signs of race, just as on South and Lombard streets in window cards of "Hair Cultural ists." and in the posters for the commem oration of Crispus Attucks's Day, when the negro race docs yearly honor to the freed slave who "shed the first blood for American freedom, on Boston Common, March fifth, 1770." In the midst of these little houses, all quiet nnd neat with clean front porches and grave brown faces gazing out of the windows, one comes unexpectedly on an abandoned grave yard, cluttered with trash and overgrown with weeds and bushes. I walked up its mild slope, over snow thnt had drifted so deep that in places only the peaks of the sunken markers stuck up into sight. Some.time in the days gone by the tomb stones here have been used as rifle targets. One of them still displays a lopsided bulls eye crudely swept round in a smear of yellow paint. The impact of small shot has often effaced the Inscription, but on the graves of Hannah and Joseph Rose, who were laid here almost a century ago, the old epitaphs may still be deciphered. Theirs was a poetic family, but the rimes are doleful to a re markable degree. Perhaps the most cheering .... in altrht is this one: V Stay Reader! Stand and spend a tear lid think 01 mo wno how u ltu , And while you read the fate of me, Think, nntbe glass that runs for thee. "HEY, SET THAT DOWN A MINUTE AND LEND A HAND!" ' .".A " , .-- , FROM DAY TO DAY T7IOCH, the victor of Foch as an Immortal Put War Into Phrase "Intelligent Audacity" Classed With the Poets Where the Celt Scored Greatest of Comc-Bachs i the Marnc, the win ner of the great war, Is now a member of the Acadcmie Francaisc. It is an honor which he, as a true French man, values more than his marshal's baton nnd almost as much as his place in history among those other immortals, the great generals of all time. In the'Academy he sits with Barres, Bour get, Anatolc France, Loti, I'revost, the novel ist; Bcrgson and l'oiucare, the philosophers; Hrieux and Cnpus, the dramatists; De Iteg nier and Itichepin, the poets; Hanotaux, the historian, and Clcmcnccau, the states man, and Joffre, the soldier. q q q THE cirphasis in this list in on things of the intellect, upon literature and art and thought, upon ideas. And Foch himself wns a man of books, a student, a theorist, a teacher whose actual field experience before 1914 had been slight. For him war was an idea, a conflict of ideas. He brought to it what he described in a phrase that stamps him worthy of his pres ent company, "intelligent audacity." i q q IT MEANS something to the world to have set up in place of the race formerly dominant on the continent of Europe whom it was the fashion for the whole world to imitate, a people who cannot think of any higher honor to pay their victorious general than to put him into the company of think ers and poets and novelists. q q q AND it means something to the world to have the winner of the war a man who wrote : The moral factor Is the most Important element In war ; the will to conquer sweeps all before It. There Is a psychological phenomenon In great battles which ex plains and determines their result. Ono hundred thousand men leave ten thousand of their number dead upon the ground and acknowledge themselves beaten ; they jetreat before the victors, who have lost as many men, it not more. Neither one side nor the other knows, when they with draw, what Us own losses have been, ribr how heavy those of, the opposing force; therefore, it Is not on account of material damage, Btlll less from any possible com putation of figures, that the losers gle up the struggle. q q q s rrtHE Fr6nch care for ideas as ideas The L Germans cared for ideas as a means clvc Germany a place in the sun. to To paraphrase Napoleon's saying Europe of the future will be French or Cossack. And the Russian cares for ideas too, in a much more passionate way than the French, who, like the Greek, never does anything Sn excess. q q q tt IKE ihe Greek" a writer in the JLi "Revue Hleuc" says the French le emble more the undent Greek than the Roman. Latin he declares the French is not; iu language certainly, but in race tempera ment, habits of mind not a Latin at all, but a "Gaulois," n Celt. The war has brought one of Time's great est revenges. For that little excursion of ncnghist and Ilorsa across the North sea from the conti nent to the old home of thp Celts in Britain, the Celt has paid the Saxon back in bis own time and in his own way. q q q WHO stopped the latest push of the Teuton westward to tho Atlantic? Who were the great men who achieved tly victory? The Celtic Foch, the Celtic Clemenceau, tho Celtic Lloyd George, nnd the Ccltjc, in part at least, of the Scotch Presbyterian Wilson ! Evidently something in the Celt which his tory, as written in tho duys of extravagant Teuton worship, overlooked as it paid its tribute rather pltjingly to the imagination, poetry, cnthualasm, love of liberty in the CclUbut dismissed him as one of the world' r lncojopctcnts. 1920 WHAT is the quality of the race, that has made this singular come back? To go back to Foch, is it "audacity?" Certainly one of the striking qunlities of tho Celt is audacity. Foch, who is the kind of man who knows himself, says it was in his case audacity, "intelligent au dacity." Certainly it wns audacity for a college pro fessor of it nation beaten in 1S70 to study the art of wnr as practiced by his people's conquerors, sec just what were the great Moltkc's weaknesses, believe thnt the weak nesses of Moltkc were the weaknesses of Ger many and with that idea beat the Germans out of their boots in 1018. Certainly it was audacity for Clemcncenu, ncaring eighty, to take up the government of a nearly beaten France and furnish out of his old heart the will that kept his people in the fight till they won. Certainly it was audacity for the son of a Welsh shoemaker, Lloyd George, the once dear foe of the ruling classes in England, to make himself their master and supply that indomitability of spirit which brought Eng land through to victory. q q q AND what is the quality in Wilson which makes us maddest? Why, precisely his audacity! His vision of a League of Nations making all men brothers was audacity. Ills getting'tlic whole world to follow him like a new Peter the Hermit was audacity. His treatment of the Senate is audacity. Some call it obstinacy but they overlook the Celt in him. "Intelligent audacity" is a Trench qual ity. In France the Celts were exposed. They were conquered by the Romans, with ad vantage to them. When the intellect wishes to sleep there" is always bunk enough in which to bed it. And there nrc bunks to suit all sizes. For in stance, tho old "Spanish prisoner" letter has bobbed up again. The ruling of the Internal Revenue De partment that the householder must have a permit to move liquor from one residence to another may discourage moving and there fore reduce the business of the transfer man. The fact that the government permits the circulation in this country of foreigu news papers containing liquor ads will enable their readers to tease- their palates through their eyes and imaginations. Moreover, because truth is an excellent weapon and straightforwardness very con fusing to tricky adversaries, it may be said that Mr. Hoover proved himself a wise poli tician and a clever strategist. Nowadays, when a man tells his wife that he has been visiting a sick friend, she may point out the fnct that he is flatly dis obeying the orders of Director Furbush. The complaint against coutractois is that they will neither clean the streets nor let others do it. Perhaps they were afriid the Boy Scouts would show them up. The fourteen-foot eel that caught a Philadelphia sportsman at Newton, N, ,1. would not dnre mako Its appearance in a statu that has indorsed the prohibition nineiidmcnl. In considering Mr. McAdoo as a piesi dcntial candidate one somehow can't forget that he got from under when the railroad sit uation became precarious. The arrival at Rcval, Esthoniu, t two caijouds of flux marks the beginning of ex ports from soviet Russia. It is understood that the Bolshevists need all thrlr hemp. i . . , - i : . W With the Stormy Petrels I WATCHED the sunset glowing on the tur quoise South Pacific While tho first faint star shone dimly In its purple eastern field; And my heart was sad within me, and I felt alone, forsaken For I'd buried you at sea, dear, where the stormy petrels wheeled. The water seemed like blood, dear, anil I thought I heard you call me, But 'twas just tho hissing wavelets as they trailed along astern; And I thought of how we'd- started on our first long trip together, Till my heart wns filled completely with the 'memories that buin. I watched the pale moon rising, and the waves were luminescent, While the calm sea-breezes whispered. , Then I bowed my head and kneeled, And I prayed that I might join you as you slept beneath the waters For I'd left you far to sea, dear, where the stormy petrels wheeled. ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM. "Olives kill six In Memphis." Head line. Curious the number of people who are traveling the Olive branch of the River Styx. What Bo You Know? QUIZ 1. What former head of the German ad miralty has fled into Switzerland be cause of the allied demands for extra diting Germans charged with crimin' offenses in the war? 2. What is the origin nnd meaning of the phrase "That's a feather in your cap"J 3. Who was Apuleius? 1. What is meant by the center of rPu" lation of a country? 5. What is a "faux pbb"? 0. How should the phrase be pronounced! 7. Of what country is Bangkok the capital? 8. When did the United States acquire Florida from Spain? 0. John Milton declared that a Greek dramatist was quoted in the Bible. What is this alleged quotation? 10. Where wns George Washington born! Answers to Yesterday's Qulr Three victories won by Washington in tho Revolutionary war were Trenton, Princeton nnd Yorktown. The total population of tho earth has been estimated as about 1,700,000,00". A hyrax is a small rabbitlike lujld'B' ped of a class which includes the Syrian lock-rabbit and the South AW"11 rock -badger. A palmer in the middle ages was pilgrim returning from the Holy M" with a palm branch or leaf. " w. also an itinerant monk under vow ' poverty. Tho word also describes destructive hairy caterpillar and hairy artificial fly. A joss is a Chinese idol. A "non sequitur" is a conclusion wbjcb does not logically follow from " premises stated. The Latin vM' literally means, "It does not follow. A suffragan bishop is ono consecrated to assist a bishop, of a sco by in lug part of the dioccso, or any bis&w in relation to his archbishop or metro polltau. , Eight Vice Presidents of the, Um;cr, States became Presidents. Tbey wf' John Adams, Thomaa Jefferson, Mar ' Van Biircn. John Tyler, Millard 1 more, A"drcw Johnson, Chester t.ll.,,. .,.,.1 'I'homlnrn llooSCVCU. The 01 tuple games nrc to be bcU ' 4 Antwerp this ycur. tI On November 11, 1018, the grand I to . 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